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You could also ask why Beltre is batting 5th when, as bad as Griffey has been, Beltre has been slightly worse offensively this year. And of course Beltre is likely to be awful for the next week or so while he gets his timing back anyways. Gutie should be ahead of both of them.

I guess Batista was just going to wait for everyone to fall asleep, then he’d sneak off the mound back to his hotel room.

msb on
August 5th, 2009 7:41 pm

I believe you might even be met with open arms should you wear the amended shirt.

Liam on
August 5th, 2009 7:41 pm

Dave made a good argument before the season that the Mariners should just cut Batista loose. It’s now August and he is below replacement level. Are we still hoping that someone is going to take him off our hands?

6.5 out of the wild card and it looks like it’s going to be 3.5 back from Texas. Would be nice to finish second (or obviously have the odds go out the window and see the Halos tank and the M’s take the division ;-)). But I’d settle for 2nd and that one just might be do-able.

Pine Tar on
August 5th, 2009 9:56 pm

Classic Niehaus quote tonight:

“Whoa look at that……A Squirell,…..no, that’s a CAT”

Adam S on
August 5th, 2009 10:45 pm

Small sample size of course, but Betancourt is now at 154/176/277 since the trade (70 plate appearances). I hoped the the trade might clear his head, but it looks like he’s two months away from being out of major league baseball.

He was too far gone to just flip a switch and have everything turn around for him. They are working with him on having an actual approach at the plate and he’s buying into it now (he see’s the writing on the wall finally). And supposedly he’s being diligent about putting in extra work both defensively and offensively off the field. However, he can’t change overnight.

Best case scenario for him is to keep putting in a lot of work for the rest of the season then go down to winter ball (if he can, given visa issues with being a Cuban defector and all; not sure what his residency papers look like and all that), then keep working on stuff there, then hope he has a good spring training and he can re-claim some of his former defensive prowess. They aren’t going to just cut him loose given the money owed, so he’ll get his chances. Assuming he puts in the work, he has at least a chance of salvaging his career.

Snarf15 on
August 6th, 2009 12:49 am

Our offense looks a thousand times better on paper now with Beltre back and Wilson for Cedeno. We might be able to make a run at this thing, though I would like for Wak to find a way to get Hannahan consistant playing time since he was just getting hot as Beltre came back.